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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (21440)	1/12/2002 10:45:14 PM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

Many in the UK are decrying the lunacy of the EU, but based on their business and wallet experiences, rather than economic predictions. The social unrest is also already here. British trucks are blockaded in France with the French police taking little action. Mobs of French farmers, while happy to take UK funded subsidies, set fire to trucks importing British meat. British beef is banned in France "due to" mad cow disease yet there is no beefstock cow in the UK that is older than the new practices that eradicated the disease out of the food chain. The same cannot be said for the food chain of other countries. The EU started out as the "common market". Certain countries are now adopting a far more unified approach in good faith, while some haven't even grasped the common market aspect. The UK has itself to blame (some blame the leaders but who voted them in?) for being far too soft. It is the ultimate ambition of refugees from all parts of the world, due to the free healthcare, rent, food and money etc. In the UK, illegal immigrants are housed, paid and given every opportunity to disappear should they face the unlikely prospect of deportation. In France, they are put into camps. The camps are placed with a few hundred metres of the entrance to the Channel tunnel, which is regularly stormed by hundreds of refugees at a time who cling to the outside of the trains and get caught at the other end, never to make the return journey. BTW, I don't have a problem with countries taking on refugees from problem areas, but it needs to be done in an economically vaible way, and that involves all nations providing their share of help. Anyway, I have had my fill of anti EU rants for a while, just nobody encourage me to expand on my thoughts on the mad cow situation please!!! vbg

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (21440)	1/13/2002 7:14:53 PM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

re: the Euro... Jim Rogers also believes the Euro will fail due to internal issues. Caught a very short interview with him on CNBC, unfortunately he didn't go into any details... He is just back from a 3 year journey around the world with his wife to 116 different countries. They survived some harrowing experiences in war-torn countries... In 90-92 he also went on a globe-trotting adventure on a motorcycle. He was a partner of George Soros for 10 years and "retired" in 1980... Some of his other comments were- Russia is a disaster that will turn into a catastrophe, Pakistan will not survive as a country, He's no longer bullish on US markets, He is bullish on China These are the most recent articles I could find by him, some interesting reading. worth.com jimrogers.com.